September Mission #grandfinale!

Student involvement: Looking for the right project? 

On September 13, 12 noon, the application deadline for Junior Researchers runs out. But what if you have not found the right project yet or just want to be a volunteer? No sweat....

We have a brand new project description from VIRT-EU that might be interesting. The study is qualitative user-studies on data leakage and ITU may be at your disposal at 'Kulturnat' to conduct the studies. Apply now, if you are interested in helping out!

More specifically, the project is about data leakage on mobile phones and how people perceive such privacy tampering. We are looking for students interesting in doing some qualitative research on how people conceptualize data leakage. As part of the project, students would do user-evaluations with an existing app that monitors data leakage from your phone in real-time (this is being developed by our partners at UC Irvine) as well as an add-on to that software. The add-on enables users to trigger a tiny electric shock each time a leakage occurs......

Read more on https://ethos.itu.dk/jr-themes/

Teaching: ZOTERO

Sharing our academic practices is valuable in a university setting. Student or researcher, using a bibliographic tool to keep track of all your research and empirical sources is essential. 

There are many academic tools and finding the right one to fit your needs can be troublesome and time consuming. This introductory workshop presents the opensource tool Zotero and we give some examples of its affordances and how to use it in practice.  

When: Wednesday 27 September, 9:30-11:00
Where: ETHOS Lab, 1C05
Register here

Research: Requiem for a Spacecraft!

On Friday the 15th of September, the NASA Spacecraft Cassini will conclude its controlled descent into Saturn’s atmosphere.
In the ETHOS Lab, TiP ethnographers will combine long term ethnographic research with real-time collection of the #grandfinale hashtag, and (hopefully) livestreaming from NASA as Cassini’s final communications come through from Saturn.

Heads of Lab will be sharing their research. Marisa Cohn has conducted a long term ethnographic study of the probe, which launched in 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. Her research explores the problems of long lived systems, the work of spacecraft engineers and particularly software developers as they stay with a problem. Rachel Douglas-Jones, working on the Data as Relation project, will speak within the research themeTemporalities of Data to discuss affective power in anthropologies of outerspace.

When: Friday Sept 15, 13:30-14:30
Where: ETHOS Lab, 1C05, ITU
Everyone is welcome.
There will be snacks, live-stream, talks and #poetry

Services: Shut Up & Write

Writing is a craft and one of the key requirements in conveying any research. It is also a vital part of academia and requires creativity but also scientific robustness. ETHOS Lab acknowledges this deskwork as an analytical process that needs to be taken seriously and we are therefore starting up weekly #shutupandwrite sessions on Thursdays from 9:30-11:30. The first session is next week, Thursday September 14.

This initiative was kicked-off by a thesis writing workshop by co-head of lab Rachel Douglas-Jones, also co-teaching the course 'Writing Innovation Studio'. Rachel has successfully been organising #shutupandwrite sessions for ETHOS Lab researchers and refers to the blog 'The Thesis Whisperer' by Dr. Inger Mewburn, Director of Research Training at the Australian National University for inspiration.

No matter what you are writing on - please join in the sessions. 

#Shutupandwrite is scheduled in the ETHOS calendar. 

When: Every Thursday
Where: ETHOS Lab, 1C05 
Register here

Blog: Decision Making in Dataset Anonymization

Viktor Hargitai, ETHOS Lab Junior Researcher in the spring semester 2017, presents a blogpost on his research for his bachelor thesis. Viktor will continue his studies at University of Copenhagen in the Msc programme for IT & Cognition. Although, he is still around ITU as a Teaching Assistant, so do not hesitate to ask him about his project or his recent internship in a Big Data Analytics department.  

Viktor's research suggests that citizens’ concerns about privacy are not aligned with how anonymization techniques are applied in practice. Read more here